Articles from the September 19, 2012 edition

As a type 2 incident management team was leaving the area Sunday and the local fires are contained and final mop up is being done -- 81,000 acres worth -- it is time to reflect on what happened locally and thank all the citizens, visitors, DOT...

The Leahy fire is essentially out, but ranchers will be dealing with the effects of it for a long time. One ranch family, Jim and Michelle Hemmer, whose 20,000-acre pastureland was essentially blacken...

Fire contained The Barker Canyon Complex fire was declared 100 percent contained at 6 p.m. Tuesday evening. Grand Coulee Volunteer Fire Chief Rick Paris stated that the fire was turned back to local fire groups and they will be carrying out patrols...

A dispute over how the administration is being handled at Center School erupted at Monday night’s school board meeting. Grand Coulee Dam School District Chair Joette Barry started things rolling when she told Superintendent Dennis Carlson that she...

Electric City citizens will be able to vent their feelings about the city’s plan to charge $20 per license tab for residents within the city limits. The occasion will be a public hearing on the license tab issue at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 25, at...

Electric City is advertising for a person interested in serving on its city council. The person selected will fill out the Position 4 term of Birdie Hensley, who vacated her seat earlier this month. The council started advertising for the vacancy thi...

Wilson Construction employees gather at the top of the middle of the lower three 300-foot-plus towers Friday to mark the basic completion of the six-tower project. Lines will be strung from the Third...

A series of wildland fires started by lightning Sept. 8 burned nearly 127 square miles of land, threatened two towns and consumed some $1.65 million of state and federal money to fight it. The Barker...

Mayors asked Monday what went wrong with the debris from Wright Elementary. The town permit obtained by Elder Demolition to dismantle the old school requires debris from the job go to the Delano Transfer Station. Transfer station Manager Randy Gumm...

We would like to thank the wonderful firemen, neighbors with shovels, the helicopter pilot and driver of the DNR tractor that joined forces to save our farm home from the wildfire on Sunday, the 9th. Without your help we would have surely lost some...

We wanted to say thank you for working so hard to save our house on Sunday, Sept. 9, 2012. We appreciate it more than you could ever know and have no doubt that without your help, we would not have a home now. This includes Douglas County Fire...

A huge thank you to the firemen who worked so hard to save everyone's farms and homes during the Barker Canyon and Leahy fires. It is truly amazing that every home where someone lives was saved. Fences can be rebuilt and pastures will grow back with...

The dictionary defines fortitude as “mental and emotional strength in facing difficulty, adversity, danger or temptation courageously” and mettle as “courage and fortitude.” These two words are extremely apt descriptions of the Volunteer...

Last night, while I was reading my “news feed” on Facebook, I saw that one of my friends had posted that they drove to Wilbur and bought their gas there. They said that it was 27 cents cheaper than here in the Coulee. I wrote a letter a while bac...

A few days ago, an inspiring and passionate nurse from Spokane, Washington, came all the way to Washington, DC to talk with me about the future of health care in America. As part of a group with the American College of Cardiology, DeAnna Jones...

Ten Years Ago Voters approved, by about 69 percent, a proposal to re-divide the Grand Coulee Dam School District last night. As a result, the school board has the authority to change the boundaries of all five respective districts. Jennifer Sedillo,...

Raymond G. Stroh, 85, a retired electrical and consulting engineer died September 10, 2012, in Tracy, Calif. Mr. Stroh, a native of Tower City, North Dakota, grew up in a farm family of eleven children. He received his higher education at the North...

Phyllis Jean Avey, born November 9, 1931, in Spring Canyon, Utah to Elias and Thelma (Henningson) Degn, passed on to her heavenly home in Moses Lake, Wash., on Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012. A 1950 graduate...

Long-time Coulee Dam residents, L. Kent and Linda Peterson, have received a mission call from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Their service will be for a duration of 18 months at the...

Rebecca Miles-Heilman and Levi Redd are proud to announce the birth of their son Jackson Alexander Redd on Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012, at Coulee Medical Center in Grand Coulee. He weighed 6 lbs., 7 oz., and was 19 inches in length at birth. Maternal...

Grant County Fire District 14 to Meet The regular monthly meeting of the Grant County Fire District 14 will be held Monday, Sept. 24, at 7 p.m., at the Electric City Fire Station. PEP to Meet Planet Earth Players will be meeting Thursday, Sept. 20,...